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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 The Indians promptly confessed their 3 Brodhead says the Indians were sup-wrong in the first of the cases recited, posed to number nineteen hundred men, and sent a deputation to the director to of whom from five to…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] three days the carnage continued, and at its close " full fifty" of the Dutch had been " murdered and put to death; over one hundred, mostly women and children," were in captivity; " twenty bouweries and a number of …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The settlers at Esopus abandoned their farms, lest they should be cut off. Even New Amsterdam was not secure; bands of Indians wandered over the island, destroying all who came in their way. Ten Frenchmen were enroll…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Pos returned, and in a few days brought from the chief of the Hack insacks fourteen prisoners, u men, women and children," as a token of his good will, " in return for which he requested some powder and ball. Stuyves…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] lu We concur in the general opinion their purpose] and been the cause of the that the Indians had, on their first arrival, dreadful consequences and enormous no other intention than to wage war losses." — O'Callagban…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and the settlers were forced, by threats of arson and murder, to plow up the patches of land where the savages planted their maize." 2 The white population consisted, at that time, of between sixty and seventy person…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The governor doth promise, be tween this date and six months, to build a house or forte upon such place as they shall show upon the north side, and the house or forte to be furnished with Indian trade and commodities…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The following day, being Ascension Thursday, the settlers assembled at the house of Jacob Jansen Stol for religious service. The governor met them there and-explained to them the difficulties under which they were pl…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] fifteen Indians, accompanied by two of their chiefs, arrived at the house of Stol, where the director was staying, with word that other sachems were deterred from coming to the conference which he had invited through…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] mers, and women and children who are not warriors. If this be not stopped, I shall be compelled to retaliate on old and young, on women and children. This I can now do by killing you all, taking your wives and little…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They felt deeply the shame that Stuyvesant had challenged their young men, and they had not dared to accept the wager, and hoped trie fact would not be spread abroad. Presents were distributed to them in exchange for…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Various other injuries you have committed since that time, not withstanding your promises. For all this we demand compen sation; to enforce which, efficient measures will be taken, unless the terms we now propose be …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Then throwing down a beaver skin, the principal sachem reminded the director that he could well afford to be generous from the prospect of largely increased trade with the Senecas. Offering a wampum belt, he conclude…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] During the summer of 1659, mutual distrust and suspicion pre vailed. The settlers were disturbed by reports that the Indians intended a general massacre when the work of harvest should begin; while the Indians regard…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Two soldiers, who had de serted from Fort Orange, were murdered by the Mahicam, and some of the Rarltans had destroyed a family of four persons, at Mespath kil, in order to obtain possession of a small roll of wampum…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The commandant at Fort Orange could give no reply, but would submit the requests which had been made to the director, whose arrival was daily expected. But Stuyvesant did not ar rive, and, after waiting several days,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] provincial assembly in 1664. His re-out issue, he married a widow Van Gaas-sidence was near the confluence of the beck and adopted her children. He died Walkill with the Hudson, and was built in 1698, and was buried …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the ramparts, and mothers pressed their children to their arms, not knowing how soon the frail palisades might yield, and them-se Ives be exposed to the pitiless mercy of the frenzied children of the forest. For thre…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] chems refused to meet him. A conference was finally held on the 1 8th of December, and the Indians persuaded to bring in some supplies in exchange for powder; but they refused to make peace, denounced the truce which…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] among the rocks," but the Indians discovered the snare, and a general fight ensued in which three Indians were killed, two severely wounded, and one taken prisoner. This disaster pro duced a material change in the de…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Meanwhile Ensign Smith pushed hostilities with vigor. On the 30th of May, guided by one of his prisoners, a force under his command discovered, " at the second fall of Kit Davit's kil," x about twelve miles west from…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] struck him down with his own axe." While Smith was thus carrying war into the heart of the Indian country, several of the sachems were seeking the media tion of the neighboring chiefs to secure a permanent peace. Sew…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] " It is very strange, then," said the old sachem, whose notions of warfare differed somewhat from his hearers, " that your people were so recently engaged against the Indians, and have slain their aged chief." Stuyve…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] After the Esopus savages burned three of our houses and murdered one of our men, a year ago, we forgave them and renewed the chain of friendship with them, promising the one to the other, that we should not thencefor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mohawk chief, Adogbegnewalquo, then addressed the Esopus chiefs : " The whole country is now convened in be half of you, who began this quarrel, to procure you peace.1 If 1 At a later period the Mohawks con-us," …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Then taking an axe from the Esopus sachem, he cast it on the ground, and trampled it in the earth saying, " Now they will never commence this quarrel anew." Sewackenamo, the Esopus sachem, then arose and addressed th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] self to assist them.1 " 9. The aforesaid chiefs (the Mohawks, Minsis and others already named) as mediators and advocates of the Esopus nation, remain securities, and engage themselves that it shall be kept inviolate…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Stuyvesant, who had already disposed of the prisoners in his hands, replied that they must be considered " as dead." The answer deeply grieved the sachem, the memory of their banished brethren was graven on the heart…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] taken prisoners there. We are sometimes obliged to pass by that path. It is good that brothers live together in peace. The French Indians meet the Mabicans near the Cohoes. This we regret. Brothers : We are united by…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 The location of this fort is supposed aboriginal name of Ponckokie. to have been at the place still bearing the OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 147 honorable herr director-general should, with some unarmed persons, sit with the…